When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A newly discovered pair of white dwarfs will both explode in a type 1a supernova when they circle ...

Using the largest catalog of exploding white dwarf vampire stars ever gathered has provided further evidence that dark energy, the mysterious force accelerating the expansion of the universe, is ...

Astronomers have found a remarkable pair of stars that may finally prove a long-debated theory. Described in the journal Nature Astronomy, this duo offers the strongest evidence yet that type 1a ...

Astronomers have uncovered an extraordinary discovery in the cosmos: a binary star system consisting of two white dwarf stars, located just 150 light-years away from Earth. These stars are on a ...

Interesting! I didn't realise fusion of Helium could happen at the surface of a star, due to lack of necessary temperature and pressure. I'd been reading about reactions that produce most heavier ...

Recent research by a team of astronomers led by the University of Arizona’s Peter A. Milne won’t overturn the Nobel-Prize-winning discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. It does ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. An explosion seen in the cosmos in the early 1600s may actually be an ...